CYRILLA'S POV Not long ago, I had been writhing in pain unlike anything I had ever known. It felt as though fire ran through my veins, threatening to consume me from the inside out. Then, suddenly, everything stilled. Darkness swallowed me, and I floated, weightless, in a void like limbo. Just as fear began to creep in, a gentle warmth bloomed in my chest, slowly spreading through every part of me. The warmth intensified, growing hotter and hotter until I felt as though I was engulfed in flames—but I wasn’t burning. And then, all at once, I shattered into a thousand pieces. When I woke, I found myself suffocating in Hunter’s tight embrace. At this moment, I find myself once again writhing, not in pain, but in extreme pleasure I never imagined I would experience. It all happened so f

